{"id":51481,"date":"2018-03-07T12:05:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:05:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/?p=51481"},"modified":"2018-03-07T12:05:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-07T17:05:53","slug":"major-chords-we-dont-mean-to-alarm-you-but-piano-six-super-group-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2018\/03\/07\/major-chords-we-dont-mean-to-alarm-you-but-piano-six-super-group-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"MAJOR CHORDS | We Don’t Mean To Alarm You But The Piano Six Super Group Is Back"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Piano Six: The next generation is ready to go where the first generation went before them.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Between 1994 and 2004 a collective of six of Canada\u2019s finest pianists known as Piano Six performed in small communities throughout this country\u2019s most remote regions, reaching over 100,000 people. This highly worthwhile outreach program, updated for a new generation of music lovers is poised to roll out a second time with a new group of pianists and an updated name: Piano Six: The Next Generation.<\/p>\n

Masterminded and coordinated by Vienna-based, Canadian pianist Daniel Wnukowski (pronounced vnoo-koff\u2019-skee), The Next Generation is a positive example of what goes around comes around. At age 18, in 1999, Wnukowski was able to participate in Janina Fialkowska\u2019s free master class when she performed and taught in Windsor, Ontario as part of the first Piano Six program.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn just one lesson, I received important artistic insights handed down directly from Arthur Rubinstein \u2014 ideas that have never left me to this day\u201d says Wnukowski of the experience for which he is still grateful.\u00a0 Like him, the other five pianists \u2014 Marika Bournaki, David Jalbert, Angela Park, Ian Parker, and Anastasia Rizikov, are all eager to \u201cgive back to the country that nurtured them as artists,\u201d according to Wnukowski.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard to think of another group of six equally astounding pianists, except possibly the original Piano Six: Janina Fialkowska, Angela Cheng, Marc-Andre Hamelin, Angela Hewitt, Andre Laplante and Jon Kimura Parker.<\/p>\n

Like the first generation, Piano Six will perform in school gymnasiums, churches, restaurants, town halls, community centres and other venues in municipalities such as Red Lake, Ontario (population 5000) and Behchoko, Nunavut, on the top tip of Great Slave Lake. \u00a0At each location, they will also offer other outreach activities including master classes.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A new direction will be including as many Canadian compositions as possible, especially by living and emerging composers.\u00a0 This includes composers who celebrate Indigenous folk music by integrating First Nations musical themes into their work in a respectful fashion.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been a fan of Wnukowski\u2019s since I heard him perform at the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. I was particularly impressed by his commitment to reviving works of exiled Jewish composers of the 20th-century including Wladyslaw Szpilman, Alfred Schnittke, Josef Koffler and others.\u00a0 I was also lucky enough to learn from David Jalbert when he taught at the Toronto Summer Music Festival Community Academy in 2016.\u00a0 This makes me rather envious of the 2828 folks in Princeton BC and the other communities who will be lucky enough to be on the destination list.<\/p>\n

Fortunately Piano Six: The Next Generation plans to include some urban destinations on their tour.\u00a0 They will be giving a gala concert in Toronto later next year.\u00a0 Before then, Torontonians can hear Rizikov play on March 17 at Robert Lowrey\u2019s piano store. \u00a0\u00a0You can sign up for announcements on their website www.pianosix.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

LUDWIG VAN TORONTO<\/i><\/b><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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